Bob Cozzi's résumé is truly impressive: nearly 20 years of AS/400, iSeries, and System i experience; more than a decade of RPG IV development; and nearly 30 years of RPG programming. He has confronted, evaluated, and circumvented nearly every roadblock RPG programmers can experience. He not only blasts through RPG IV's shortcomings, but he also creates extensions that provide features that are simply not available in standard RPG IV.

With these 101 Dynamite Tips ‘n Techniques, Cozzi provides the solutions to dozens of technical dilemmas, gives you insights into resources formerly available only to a select few, and exposes RPG IV extensions that use his vast knowledge of System i MI instructions—all with easy-to-use wrappers that even the most inexperienced RPG IV programmer can implement. Lift the code right out of the book and into your applications!
RPG TnT provides a nearly endless supply of must-have solutions and simple yet powerful RPG tips and tools.

With this book, you'll learn how to:

Implement an alternative to QCMDEXC

Use QUALIFIED and nested data structures

Embed compiler parameters into source members

Calculate end-of-month dates and day-of-week names

Create an auto-extend user space

Use C runtime functions in RPG IV

Use the secret ‘X' edit code to convert numeric to character

Improve performance when accessing user space data

Retrieve the function key used on a display file

Use EXTFILE to avoid needless overrides

Debug variables that have debugger command names

Read and encrypt save files in RPG IV

And a whole lot more!

About author

Robert Cozzi Jr. —Robert Cozzi, Jr., has been an RPG programmer since 1978. He is the author of several books on RPG programming, including The Modern RPG IV Language. Bob is Webmaster for the popular RPGWorld.com Web site and produces several RPG training events each year, including the annual RPG World® Conference. His production company, Crooked Jaw Productions, produces the “i5 TV” and “Shoot'n iT” podcasts.

Over the years, Bob has consistently helped System i5 and RPG IV programmers to be more productive by creating and publishing tools, tips, and techniques for their programming arsenal. Bob's original publication, Q38 Technical Journal, had the tag line “Providing the Solutions,” and with his latest writings he continues to excel in that mission. For more information, visit Bob's Web sites: RPGWorld.com, MidrangeNews.com, and BobCozzi.com.